Are meditation & yoga related in the same category?If negative,Please classify?

Question

Practically, when refer yoga, which means on exercise basic. Whereas meditation is on mental concept.It looks like two different categories, Is it right? If not, please analyse.

Answer 1

You can practice each independently of the other. After a good yoga work out meditation is great to help with full relaxation but not necessary.

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Answer 2

yoga is an union of mind, body & soul... it contains 8 steps... the 8 fold path: 1. Yama - moral disciplines 2. Niyama - the path of self-restraint 3. Asana - physical postures (commonly only asans are refered to as yoga) 4. Pranayama - controlled breathing 5. Pratyahara - focus toward inwards 6. Dharana - step focussing on concentration 7. Dhyana - meditation 8. Samadhi - the final stage / nirvana Thus the asans & meditation are both a part of uniting the body and soul with the universal energy! In case you are more interested you search for sites that deal with yoga... there are loads of information on the web & if you in mumbai you could visit the yoga institute in santacruz they have a library

Answer 3

Yoga = Physical exercises which work to focus and balance the energies in the body.
It can be called spiritual, but all energy related exercises have to do with the Bioelectricity within the body, which powers everything we do, and is manipulateable by the mind with training.

Pilates = The purely physical training aspect, but most likely still has alot to do with energy, because that is the reason Yoga is so effective, it works with the energy.


Meditation = working with the energy using the mind alone.

Many people often mistake meditation as clearing the mind, or reflection, but that is not true, and these are only preparation exercises to 'prepare' the mind.

Meditation, where you focus on a single thought, or 'nothing', trains your mind to be one-pointed, and be focused, however, do not mistake this for tunnel-vision, which is undesireable.

But that is only scratching the surface, real meditation trains the mind to access the other parts of the physical in which we have become unaware of due to atrophy of the chakras and pineal gland.
Once we re-activate them, and make them healthy once agian, and clean them of all the filth and gunk in them that prevents us from using them, we become truly limitless in what we can do.

Most mainstream religions work to keep the population away from real spirituality, or knowlege, namely christianity, muslim, the surface of judaism, etc.

Though-
The bible DOES have allegorical meanings in it.

Example:

Being sealed off from the tree of life, by the cherub with the flaming sword.

After research, using the correct knowlege, we see that the tree of life is the Kundalini, as the Kundalini is the life energy that we are sealed off from, the "flaming sword" which keeps us from the kundalini is the base chakra (the base, and the kundalini itself, are hot. When the kundalini itself is risen past the base chakra, it is very HOT, like molten lead. Not many have risen the kundalini, but for those who have, it has completely transformed thier lives because it gets rid of alot of the gunk in the chakras, and empowers them. Once it reaches the Crown chakra, at the top of the head, it activates dormant parts of the brain, and you are transormed. This can also be called the "trial of fire".)

The tree of knowlege, good, and evil is the human soul, and the serpent is the kundalini energy, (like I siad before, the kundalini activates parts of the mind, and it also transforms the soul.)
The kundalini energy lies dormant, coiled up beneath the base, and rises up like a serpent once activated, through the primary chakras.

I could go on and on about many different things, but the main point is that Yoga works to direct the energy in the body by connecting different energy pathways and circuits through the positions.
Yoga + Meditation is much better than only Meditation, or the other way around.

Oh and Enjoy the Yule Season/Winter Solstice. =]

Answer 4

The asanas (postures) of yoga are used as a preliminary for the next steps of breath control (pranayama) and meditation in the yogic philosophy of Patanjali.
Check Patanjali out on google.

Answer 5

i think its origins link the two but its kind of every man for himself these days. If you want to meditate go ahead, if not, then don't. I think you are right when you say yoga these days is primarily for a sort of excercise. I think originally it was intertwined with religeous beliefs of some sort

Answer 6

not at all